“From the Planet of Syria we tried to send you our human voices, but they were not heard enough. Today we are sending a message by animals that they may find a listening ear.”

Sorry to visitors interested just in beautiful pictures of beautiful food- you won’t find them here today. Instead, here’s a chilling little picture of the terrible desperation of war and starvation. I have never seen anything like these short films before. Brace yourself and share them.

One is thankful not to get frequent opportunity to glimpse humour that emerges around fear of starvation; nevertheless these are quite brilliant ways to get a strong message out.

They came to me via Planet Syria, a campaigning group of non-violent Syrian activists seeking to engage the world in solutions to violence and extremism. The smallest gesture is to stand in international solidarity with people under siege.